Sparkle and Cyta announced the successful landing of the BlueMed submarine cable at Cyta’s Yeroskipos station in Cyprus, marking a key milestone in Sparkle’s pan-Mediterranean infrastructure buildout. BlueMed forms part of the broader Blue & Raman Submarine Cable Systems, jointly developed with Google and other operators, linking Italy to Jordan and extending to Mumbai, India. The system features four fiber pairs with a design capacity exceeding 25 Tbps per pair, providing high-speed, low-latency connectivity between Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
By linking to Yeroskipos, Sparkle establishes a new presence in Cyprus while enabling Cyta to deliver enhanced connectivity between Cyprus, Greece, and the wider Mediterranean region. This development strengthens Cyprus’ growing role as a digital hub bridging Europe and the Levant. Supported by funding from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), BlueMed aims to bolster Europe’s digital resilience and international data flows through redundant and diverse subsea routes.
Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle, said, “This is a new important stage for BlueMed, a project that embodies our commitment to innovation and collaboration, linking Europe with Africa and the Middle East through a state-of-the-art infrastructure.”
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The BlueMed landing in Cyprus adds to a surge of regional subsea deployments transforming the Mediterranean into a high-capacity mesh for intercontinental data traffic. Alongside systems such as Medusa (connecting Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt) and 2Africa (circling Africa’s coast), BlueMed strengthens east–west resilience and alternative routes to the congested Suez corridor. For Cyprus, the integration enhances its positioning as a key junction between Europe and the Middle East, complementing other projects like Quantum Cable and Medusa’s planned landing in the region.
For Sparkle, BlueMed underscores a growing strategic footprint that now includes multiple Mediterranean landings—Genoa, Palermo, Marseille, Tel Aviv, and soon Aqaba and beyond. Together with its existing 600,000 km global fiber network, Sparkle is reinforcing its role as a critical European carrier for hyperscalers, OTTs, and operators seeking multi-terabit, low-latency routes connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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